Target practice (caption this!)

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | Thu Oct 3, 1:15 AM ET | Rich Pedroncelli

[Conagher]

The contents of a Human Waste Packout system are displayed at the Bunny Flat Trailhead at Mount Shasta, Calif., Friday, Sept. 13, 2002. The large target is held down by four rocks. After use the target is sprinkled with cat litter, that comes in the paper bag at right, rolled up and placed in the paper bag, which is put in a plastic bag to be packed out. On Mount Shasta and at a growing number of national forests and parks across the West, climbers are being asked to bag more than peaks as they take the "leave no trace" ethic to a new level. In the past four years, climbers have hauled 10 tons of their own waste off the mountain in a rite of a passage that is seen as a model in other wilderness areas overwhelmed by the sight, stench and health threat of human waste.

[Conagher]

Will my wife get pissed if I don't leave the seat down on this?

[DoughtyOne]

I have a new plan. It involves forbidding any government employee from going within 100 miles of our nation parks.

[dirtboy]

this actually is a serious matter. You can't turn over a rock on some of Colorado's 14,000 foot peaks without finding a nasty surprise underneath.

[admiralsn]

this actually is a serious matter. You can't turn over a rock on some of Colorado's 14,000 foot peaks without finding a nasty surprise underneath.

This looks to only compound the problem- what with at least 4 rocks becoming in hazard's way.

[dgallo51]

Why not print a pic of Saddam under the target?

[dgallo51]

Or Tom Daschle…

[Conagher]

I don't think I'd want to expose that particular orifice to either one of those people, even though it is merely a likeness. One never can be too sure!

[CIB-173RDABN]

Where do the animals that live in the forest go? Do they pick it up and take it with them?

Maybe the enviromentalist should go up into the mountains and clean up after them. At least it would give them something useful to do.

This is silliness to a new degree.

[Slyfox]

[CdMGuy]

You've got that right. It seems to me the problem is to educate people to be more considerate, that is, careful. If you dig a deep enough hole, and fill it back up, it shouldn't be a problem. On the other hand, if you just dump and run, it is. So now the same people who dump and run are expected to be so considerate as to use this dump and wrap package. I don't think they will. Just more government employee silliness.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree that it's an issue, but it seems to me a small camp spade would be a better remedy. Go down nine inches to a foot. Make your depost. Cover it up.

[Khurkris]

damn amatuers....dig a pit, dump, replace soil....geez...and they let these people out in the woods on their own.

[Conagher]

If you're too dumb to dig a latrine hole, I guess it's pretty just punishment for you to carry your own feces around with you.

Actually I'm pretty impressed that these people are out of diapers.

[dirtboy]

I agree that it's an issue, but it seems to me a small camp spade would be a better remedy. Go down nine inches to a foot. Make your depost. Cover it up.

Ain't a lot of soil above timberline, and the biological processes are very slow, and the tundra doesn't handle the disturbance well.

[dirtboy]

Where do the animals that live in the forest go? Do they pick it up and take it with them?

This really isn't about the forest, it's about the areas above timberline. Ain't much soil up there and crap takes a long time to decompose. On popular routes such as Shasta or Longs Peak in Colorado, you could have several hundred people a day climbing. Even if thirty of them try to take care of business above timberline, that's a lot of crapola over the course of a summer.

[Old Professer]

Ain't a lot of soil above timberline, and the biological processes are very slow, and the tundra doesn't handle the disturbance well.

Rather than carry all that craptrap claptrap, why not just take a small bag of lime?

[dirtboy]

Rather than carry all that craptrap claptrap, why not just take a small bag of lime?

Once again, there ain't much soil up there - you can't bury it much at all, and the biological processes at altitude are very slow, so the turds stay around for some time. What good would lime to for that?

[pankot]

Ten tons of $--t! Let's send these guys to clean up Congress!

[Grammy]

Mr Grammy just climbed Grand Teton, and was furnished with one of these lovely gifts. Not the highlight of his climb.

[SGCOS]

...This really isn't about the forest, it's about the areas above timberline.

ok, fine. Where do the elk and yellow bellied marmots go?

&^)